Serving the Master

Do you know my King? Do you know Jesus the way that I know Him? Let me tell about my King! Let me use the words of another great preacher and try to describe My King to you... He is the King of the Jews – He is the King of Israel – He is the King of Righteousness – He is the King of the Ages – He is the King of Heaven – He is the King of Glory – He is the King of King and the Lord of Lords – DO YOU KNOW HIM? He is a Sovereign King – His limitless love cannot be measured – He is enduringly strong – He is entirely sincere – He is eternally steadfast – He is imperially powerful – He is impartially merciful – and He is Immortally graceful – DO YOU KNOW HIM? He is the greatest King to ever cross the horizon of this world – He is God’s Son – He is the sinner’s Savior – He is the centerpiece of civilization – He is unparalleled – He is unprecedented – He is the loftiest idea in literature – He is the highest personality in philosophy – and He is the only one qualified to be the All-s...

Question : How can God be a just God and allow someone who has never heard the gospel to suffer eternal condemnation? The first thing Paul shows us is “Man’s Opportunity”—the possibilities that we all have had to know God. This is a most interesting study because it is the very question that is usually asked when you sit down to talk to somebody about Christ or about God. Inevitably, sooner or later, the question comes up: “Well, what about the heathens who have never heard the gospel?” In Chapter 1, Verses 18-20 we have the answer to this question: ·          (vs18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ·          (vs19) Because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. ·          (vs20) For since the creation of the world...

Parashah Va’era (And I Appeared) God says to Moses, “I am Adonai” I appeared to Abraham, Issac and Jacob. He established (or Cut) His covenant with them, and He has heard the cry of His people in the land of Egypt.   What we see next are very familiar to us…the “four expressions of redemption,”  These redemptive acts: He would bring out the Israelites from under the burdens of Egypt; deliver them from bondage; redeem them with His outstretched arm and great judgements; and take them to Himself as His own people. These four promises are called the Four Expressions of Redemption, and they are traditionally commemorated during the Passover Seder (ritual meal) with four cups of wine. God also makes a fifth expression of redemption.    He promises He will bring His people back into their own land. The land promised to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Exodus 6:8 - “And I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob and I will ...

Abram heard the word “GO”. Go out to a land and see this land that I will show you. God gives Abraham a new name and a new purpose. “To make you a great nation. In all creation they will be blessed because of you!” God’s desire for each of us a new purpose. Our name may not change, but our hearts should Abraham had to go, I had to go. I heard the call of the ruach and I went. We are all here in this place, because at some point in our lives, God said to us, GO! And like Abram, we are to trust God’s direction for us! 1 Cor 5:14 says , if any are in Messiah, he I a new creation. Old things have passed away and behold, all things have become new . We have become new in Yeshua. A new spirit resides in us. Is it apparent to the person on your block, in your office, in your school, to the person sitting next to you this morning that you are a new creation. That you heard the word, GO? Turn in your bibles to… Colossians 3 Let’s begin at verse 1…(READ) Therefore, if you hav...

This week’s readings are all about new beginnings. All about God’s commission! All of Deuteronomy is the retelling of God’s covenant to his people. Now Moses (God’s mouthpiece to His people) is giving his final instructions to all of the people entering into the land. All that are gathered… It included everyone standing before God—from the greatest to the least—the heads of tribes, elders, officers, the men and women, the little ones, and the outsiders in your camp…from that day forward and for all time. Giving them a commission, standing before God, each of them to cross over into the covenant of Adonai. Why? In order to confirm you today as His people. God’s covenant to all people! To Israel and to those who dwelled among them. A picture of the Kingdom to come. Such a momentous occasion!   This covenant promised that God would establish Israel and those standing by them as His own people and that He would be their God. The wonderful parallel that I saw in our Brit Hadas...

God gives Phineas a covenant of peace; The numbering of the second generation. God explains the apportionment of the Land of Israel; the daughters of Zelophehad petition to inherit their father's portion; Moses appoints Joshua his successor. So much to discuss in this parasha, but today, I want to focus on two things. A new generation and a new leader for that generation. After the death of a generation of Israelites, God told Moses to take a count of the entire community of the sons of Israel from 20 years old and upward, according to their father’s houses. Each of the families was counted and numbered as God commanded. After listing the tally for each of the tribes, the total number of men between the ages of 20 and 60, not counting the tribe of levi was 601,730. The new census confirms that all those who rebelled against God by refusing to enter the land when they first came to it were now dead. Verse 65 tells us “because Adonai had said they would surly die in the wil...